The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-30

AT st. Vincent Mimi, Monday, go be-
low zero.
MANY of Stanley's men have died from
starvation
MoRE branches of the Irish League have
been suppressed.
CopIous rains have broken the drouth in
southern Illinois.
THE New York Herald has raised its price
from two to three cents.
Mr.. PowDERLY positively declares that he
will not resign this year.
THE Plymouth House at Plymouth, n.
H., was burned Monday.
THERE are fifty claimants to ex-Vice-
president Wheeler's estate.
A GERMAN surgeon announces the dis
covery of the cancer bacillus.
The alleged probability of an Austro-
Russian war is secuted at Pesth.
AT negro dance in Texas falling house
killed six and wounded twenty.
A coLLIERY explosion at Abedaire, En-
gland, has entombed $40 miners.
THE money cost of the Chicago anarchists
trial and execution was 100000.
A GRAND RAPIDS furniture factory was
damaged S2O0,0OO by fire Sunday.
TWELVE girls were burned to death in
school-house in Russian village.
WAGES are likely to be cut down If the
price Vi steel rails uOtS llOb iluIlIoNc'
The Tehauntepec Ship Railway Com
pany has been Incorporated at Albany.
p DARDEN of Mississippi has been chosen
worthy master of the National Grange.
TEN or twelve negro strikers were killed
in an ARRAY at Thebodeaux, La, last week.
PRINCESS BEATR1cEs second child has
been christened Victoria Eugene Julia Eva
A NEW fiying-machine has been invented
in New York to be controlled by electricity.
THANKSGIVING dinners were eaten by
Americans resident in Berlin and London.
THE republican clubs of the United States
are called to meet in New York December
18th.
THIRTY-FIvE lives were lost by a collision
of Russian steamers off the Crimea last
week
THE st. John Globe favors the annexation
of the maritime provinces to the United
States.
YALE beat Harvard at football in the
presence of 24,000 persons. Score, seven
teen to eight
DIpHTHERIA and scarlet fever rage at
Woonsocket, II. l., and there have been
many deaths.
JOHN p. FROST of Syracuse, n. Y, lost
his wife and eight children by the " Schol-
ten" disaster.
SENATOR JONES of Florida. who is still at
public charity.
CHAIRMAN JONES of the national repub-
lcan committee denies that he contem-
plates resigning
GENERAL j. f. PHILLIPS of Kansas City
has been appointed to succeed Land Com
missioner Sparks
New SOUTH WALES offers American in
ventors $4,000 for process which will eX-
terminate rabbits.
n 400 Al.
of the incendiary who fired his winter quar-
ters at Bridgeport.
Two freight trains were wrecked near
Pittsburgh. Three trainmen We're killed
and five were injured.
COLONEL A. j. ROGERS of Georgia had his
valise and S150,000 in bonds stolen by a
young Pole at Boston.
The war in dressed-beef rates continues
undated. reduction of sixteen cents
has been made to date.
IT is reported that four of the seven judges
in the court of appeals favor setting aside
the conviction of Sharp.
SECRETARY WHITNEY returns to Wash
ington in better health, but will resume his
official duties gradually.
CHICAGO, Philadelphia and Minneapolis
are all making strong efforts to secure the
republican national convention.
NINA VAN ZANDT has given up the idea of
| killing herself because of Anarchist Spies
death and will buy suit of sables.
A CHINAMAN ran amuck on a Denver &
Rio Grande railway train and after fatally
| stabbing passenger was shot dead.
THE mechanics fair at Boston will leave
in the treasury, after paying all expenses,
| the handsome sum of at least $4,000,
A PERSON, whose name is to be withheld
for the present, has given $4,000 for the
general expenses of Amherst College.
ATLANTA, Ga, after a heated contest,
voted against prohibition and will he sub
ject to the legislative high-license act.
Tie rebelious knights of Labor are or
ganizing in nearly every state against the
authority of the present general officers.
PRINCE BISMARCK is reported as having
told the car that the triple alliance was
the result of Russa's sullenness and ill-will.
REV. Mr.. KIMBALL, the Hartford Comm
pastor who expressed sympathy for the an
archists, has been sustained by his congre-
CATION
THE dwelling of Carl Honikel was burned
at Wausau, Wis. and Honikel and his five
children persisted. Mrs. Honikel escaped,
but is insane.
DIPHTHERA has become so prevalent at
Clinton, Conn, shore line town, that the
Morgan school has been closed until the
danger is passed
IT is now alleged that the ear discovered
while talking with Prince Bismarck, that he
had received "A forged letter in regard to
Germany's policy.
THE comptroller of the currency has au-
thorized the Canandaigua National Bank OF
Canandaigua, y. Y, to begin business with
a capital of 100000.
THREE Mormon elders are on PROSECUTING
excursion in the mountain sections OF
Roanoke county, Va, and preach nightly
to the ignorant people.
In the bowling gale, heavy seas and
murky atmosphere that made Thursday
night terror to all lake sailors five vessels
We're wrecked near Chicago.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD has given $4,000
for the establishment in Toronto of ne W
hospital, ON condition that the fund be in.
creased to $4,000 by subscription
THE safe of the county treasurer's Office al
Centrevile, Mo-, was blown open Friday
night and robbed of $4,000 in cash tax col
} ections. There is no clue to the robbers.
A BOILER used for heating water burst il
the kitchen of the Kirby House at Mil
waukee, wrecking part OF the hotel. Sew
eral people were severely injured and two
are missing.
, AT the inquest on the recovered bodies o
the " w. A. Scholten " disaster, the Rotter
= dam agent of the steamer testified Their,
! We're pa persons aboard, of whom eighty
, nine were saved.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY declares
that this generation is not good enough t,
practice the in common land theories
D which have recently been presented to on